... . He founded the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, a powerful conservative think tank, and he is the point of convergence between the secular and the religious right. He was a key organizer of the Moral Majority in 1979 and the Christian Coalition in 1989 where he continues as an active strategist. Weyrich also runs the Free Congress Foundation (FCF) which he founded with ... Wasserman as President, and Schreiber as Vice President. Wasserman had been Reagan's primary Agent and had secured MCA's first million-dollar studio deal for him in 1942. MCA had a history of anti-trust violatio...

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Let's turn to the history of ellipsis first. Albert Sturteuant explains that the use of ellipsis was first detected in the ancient German dialect: Old Norse. Their use of ellipsis occurred much earlier more extensively than in any other ancient dialects known to most researchers. In the analysis of Norse passages, researchers have uncovered the omissions of whole infinitive phrases and the "to ... Doane and E. L. Doctorow underline the nature of a particular way of speaking among the underclasses of America by employing non-standard ellipses in their speech: (omission of have) Watergate, man,...

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... have been adopted under any other President in recent memory."6 The first thing that needs to be addressed about the economic history of the 1980's is the relatively poor economy that Reagan inherited. There is still argument over whether the recession of 1981 to 1982 was Reagan's fault.7 Some politicians and historians have claimed that the Administration caused the recession. However, Reagan's fiscal ... gotten richer (which they did), the middle and lower classes got richer at a higher rate. As the rich became richer, it led to an increase in total tax collected in 1989 than in 1982,...

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... upon taking office he found there was a deficit in the state treasury. He then sponsored three tax increases, one of them the largest in the state's history. But after the tax hikes had produced a surplus in the treasury, Reagan distributed much of the excess money back to the taxpayers. One campaign promise Reagan kept was to clean up the mess at Berkeley ... increases totaling about $91 billion in 1982. This was the largest increase in U.S. history. The deficit for the 1982 fiscal year, however, reached a record $110.7 billion. By late 1982, about 11% of the labor force had no jobs-the...

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